He was 20 when he put out Brown Sugar.

TWENTY.

Now I am listening to D'Angelo while taking care of the tasks I already had planned for the day, and I am slightly worried I'm going to buy my mom an inordinately sexy birthday present.

I don’t want to be presumptuous, but I think your mom will understand.

Read this right after a conversation with some friends about the permeation of sponcon in writing/creative work, and how you have to fight to dedicate yourself to those pursuits. It's a beautiful reminder of why that's important. Yeah you can get your bag, maybe you need to, but what do you lose?

one of the realest tributes to Prince anybody did after he died. Somebody major needs to get on TV and do for “The Charade” what D’Angelo did here

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D’Angelo, the neo-soul trailblazer and modern visionary whose three albums were all heralded as classic works of art, has died at age 51.

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From @saulwilliams.bsky.social liner notes for Voodoo:

““The distilled ambiance of an Al Green song, the ambiguous sexual majesty of a Prince song, the creative genius of Stevie Wonder… D’Angelo has made his choices, carefully weaving them into his character.”

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D’angelo gave us three albums between 1995 and 2014, and all three were absolutely perfect, no filler, no skips.

This world never deserved him.

Or she could just endorse @grahamformaine.bsky.social instead…

“Most people, after all, aren’t looking to kill or be killed; most people just want to know how to build communities that can defend themselves.”

@davidklion.bsky.social on the durable resistance of OBAA’s Sensei Sergio in @newrepublic.com

Maybe we all cling to del Toro’s Sensei saying “A few small beers” because we want to stay in that almost saint-like presence a little longer, and to believe that someone like Sensei Sergio St Carlos is out there, calmly and determinedly doing what is undeniably God’s work and going unnoticed.📽️

it’s good when novels are huge and long and even occasionally boring, it’s fundamentally a durational form

Well okay, Diane, if you insist.

The listed writer and director of Love and Death (1975) is one thing, but Diane Keaton is another entirely. This film belongs to her without question.

For her, it’s a comedic masterwork, particularly an early seduction scene involving a (rented) piano. 📽️

Battlefield Earth (2000) is so hideous a cinematic experience that even 25 years later I regret the 119 minutes I spent in that screening.

And yet…

We’re looking for anonymized photos of prescription bottles to help us determine where those drugs were made.

Here’s a quick guide to sending in your label securely ⤵️

Satoshi Kon’s Perfect Blue (1997) is a heralded masterpiece of anime, and while you can see — clearly, visually, structurally — why, you can’t help feeling like something is horribly wrong. Given the psychodrama plot, that’s the point, the film does what it set out to do, but it doesn’t stop there.📽️

I endorse this with my whole heart and I also think, at least for this one weekend, we can all agree that Love & Death and Interiors (and, sure, Annie Hall) are Diane Keaton movies and you can watch them bc what’s brilliant about those movies, which is a lot, is overwhelmingly bc of her

I’m visiting my mom and it’s 10:30pm here which means the only way available to me to watch Reds is on my phone which I guess means I’m gonna watch Reds on my phone at 10:30pm, now

There are so many Diane Keaton performances to remember, but a lot of people haven't seen Reds, and A) my God, see it, it is a masterpiece and B) her performance as Louise Bryant is one of the bravest, toughest, least sympathy-courting pieces of work by an American actress in the last 50 years.

Should have been Woody Allen.

New York City in mid-October.
Where it’s a perfectly cool fall day outside and a disgustingly humid summer day on the subway.

“This is a prize given to a cause which the United States has very much supported over the years.”

Meaning, you know, democracy.